Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb mod] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never intended to imply that I would be the first artist to employ hanging cloth ( my use of Walter Benjamin necessitated for this kind of work that I block the aura of the collection and re-route it toward another kind of signification , as well as reference a museum 's depot ) but I am confident that anyone who has visited my installation comes away knowing what my contribution is . |
| 2 | My particular role erm in the operation was to carry one of the ballistic shields erm and I also erm during the briefing was informed that I would be the first person through the front door and consequent consequently to the door of the master bedroom . |
| 3 | ‘ And you imagine that I 'll be the next to be arrested ? |
| 4 | ‘ He 's heard of your father 's heart attack , and wants reassurance — personal reassurance — that I will be the next chairman of the international network , which of course includes all dealings in Auckland . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But they have long since vanished from Ireland , Fergus , and it may be that I will be the last Queen to have seen them and heard them . |
| 6 | I persuaded my mother that I should be the first visitor ; after all , I knew Parma better than she did , and since I was a young girl they might treat me more kindly . |
| 7 | She subscribed to the journals Poétique and Tel Quel so that she could be the first person on the Trumpington Road to know the latest thoughts of Roland Barthes and Julia Kristeva . |
| 8 | Not that you 'll be the first . |
| 9 | ‘ But as for forgetting about this morning 's little episode … personally , I suspect that you 'll be the first to do so . ’ |
| 10 | Kurz had been boasting that they would be the first to climb the face , thus adding to the triumph of the Berlin Olympics . |
| 11 | I think I did say , in Sounds , that they would be the last major rock band , in the sense that they would follow , and terminate , the trend that rolls through The Who/The Stones etc , playing big stadiums on summer days to hordes of worshippers . |
| 12 | The airline had opened the route on the basis that it would be the first of many , but the British Government had failed to grant any more licenses . |
| 13 | Albania on Aug. 16 announced that it would be the 141st signatory country to the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty [ see pp. 22787-90 ] . |
| 14 | But he warned that buyers ' foreign-exchange hedging operations meant that it would be the fourth quarter of 1992 before the full impact came through in orders and deliveries . |
| 15 | But it 's likely that it 'll be the last showing at Notts County Council of course . |
| 16 | The company claims that it will be the first program to integrate E-Mail , scheduling and calendar functions into one package . |
| 17 | I was delighted to learn recently that Arcam has announced that it will be the first British company in 10 years to make a cassette deck here in the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | I believe that it will be the first of many Queen 's Speeches prepared by my right hon. Friend . |
| 19 | Well can I say first of all that the meeting to which you refer will take place this coming Monday and I suspect that it will be the first of possibly two or three meetings which I suspect are going to follow rather quickly , one after the other . |
| 20 | Somebody here observed that it must be the first Life on somebody so reclusive and how therefore did the programme-makers manage to find enough guests ? |
| 21 | He wanted a promise that as soon as the baby appeared he should be sent for , ‘ even in the dead of night ’ so that he might be the first to kiss it . |
| 22 | They all turned out to watch him go , Pen clamouring to accompany him so that he might be the first to embrace and welcome Lily 's baby . |
| 23 | The sounds he made fell into the embrace of a dead echo , and he felt that he might be the last man on earth . |
| 24 | He may not fancy it , but it 's a safe bet that he would be the first man to do it . |
| 25 | Terence Blacker had made a small bet with himself that he would be the first speaker to mention children 's books : he won . |
| 26 | While the Prime Minister himself denied that he would be the first executive President , in the absence of any obvious independent candidates , there was an assumption that whoever did take up the office would closely reflect Lee 's views . |
| 27 | He managed furthermore discreetly to put into circulation the audacious proposal that he should be the first Governor-General of the two independent states . |
| 28 | Gaitskell became excited at the prospect and instructed me with great firmness that as soon as I had received the ‘ discovered ’ documents I was to show them to no one but to come straight to him , so that he should be the first person to know who the culprit was or what information was available that would lead to the culprit 's identity . |
| 29 | The court heard that Baillie had asked another man to hide the gun and warned him that he could be the next to be 'blown away' |
| 30 | Goreng had been worried it might be a set-up — paranoia and distrust were that army 's staple — and he 'd assured Martinho that he 'd be the first to go if that was the case . |